About My Musical Language:
I have a unique and evolving musical voice that incorporates both my Jazz and Classical training. I am comfortable and fluent in composing in Modern Chamber, Orchestral and Jazz idioms. My music can be difficult to understand on first hearing, but those who have spent the time to listen to my music have come to understand and appreciated my highly individual musical language. I feel that my 16 year sojourn from music has allowed me to come at music in a very different direction than if I had simply continue without a break. I believe that those years in the musical wilderness allowed my music to ferment and mature in my subconscious.
Trumpet, Piano.
Paper
Pencil
City of Glass: Stan Kenton
Milestone Profiles: McCoy Tyner
A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga: Ravi Shankar
A Love Supreme: John Coltrane
The Creator has a Master Plan: Pharaoh Sanders
Symphony No.7: Einojuhani Rautavaara
Wave: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tears of Joy: Don Ellis
A Love Supreme: John Coltrane
Out There: Eric Dolphy
Birth of the Cool: Miles Davis
The Rite of Spring: Igor Stravinsky
Symphony No. 9: Beethoven
Concord Sonata: Charles Ives
Bitch's Brew: Miles Davis
Don Ellis
Charles Ives
Like Nothing Else in the World.